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JANNAH:
The Garden from
the Qur’an and Hadith

The Ability to Change One’s Form as
Desired:

If people were offered the opportunity to choose
their facial features and physical characteristics, there is
no doubt that most would choose to look flawlessly
beautiful. This is because human beings take delight in
beauty and always look for perfection. We notice the
slightest flaw, but the beauty we seek cannot be found
in this world. Even if a person were the most beautiful

individual in the world, distress, illness and, most im-
portantly, mortality casts a shadow over this beauty. It
is a part of our test that every thing in this world has
been created with defects and imperfections. There is a
good reason for these: to direct us towards the afterlife
and make us yearn for the Garden, the real place to find

the beauty and perfection that delights us. In the
Garden, Allah will recreate people with perfect beauty
and give them the most pleasing forms. And this beau-
ty will not be limited to one form. Allah will give His
slaves in the Garden the choice of whatever form they
desire at any time so that the people of the Garden can
have a variety of beautiful forms whenever they want.

The Prophet tells us that believers can select a form
they like from markets in the Garden and assume it:
There is in the Garden a market wherein there will
be no buying and selling, but forms of men and

women. So when a man wishes a form, he will enter
into it. (Narrated by Ali, at-Tirmidhi)

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